PayPal Assigned Patent

PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,460,405) developed by Vijayan, Sachin, San Jose, CA, and Shah, Chirag, Fremont, CA, for a “systems and methods for cloud data loss prevention integration.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system, method, and computer readable medium is provided to provide an integrated storage system. For example, an embodiment may detect, by an enterprise computer system, an activity notification from a cloud service that stores data on behalf of an enterprise. The activity notification may specify a file name involved in an activity performed by the cloud service, (e.g., creating or modifying a file). The enterprise computer system may then download a file, (or contents thereof) from the cloud service using the file name specified by the activity notification. After downloading the file, the enterprise computer system may analyze the file against a data loss prevention rule. Based on an outcome from the data loss prevention rule, the enterprise computer system may communicate an action response to the cloud service. The action response may direct the cloud service to perform an action on the file stored by the cloud service.“

The patent application was filed on December 21, 2013 (14/138,050).